One of my favorite cultural icons returned to Twitter this week. That’s right, friends and neighbors, this week @KanyeWest returned to the Twitterverse after almost a year of having deleted his account. I honestly don’t know what it is that I like about Kanye so much, but if I had to guess, it was his unflinching embrace of the state of “poor miserable sinner” that we confess every Sunday. So many people try to cover up who they are with seemingly righteous justification and redaction of our private sins. Not Kanye. Kanye is just Kanye. Even when you would rather if he wasn’t. 
And so when Kanye comes back to Twitter, the world notices. So likewise, when Kanye threatens to write a philosophy book, the world notices. That’s right, the Yeezy (that’s Kanye’s nickname if you’re uninitiated) is writing uhmn…philosophy. Or at least that is what he is calling it. One of the lines from this upcoming tome that has the working title “Break the Simulation”, is this: “I no longer wish to be number one. I wish to be water.” The intended effect of the line is that Kanye doesn’t want to work for himself, his own branding, his own position – rather “where I can take the information that I have and help as many people as possible.”
For as silly as Kanye can be sometimes, this makes sense to me. This is Christianity, this wishing to be water. We don’t wish to be number one – in fact we know that we aren’t. We know what “number one” had to die on the Cross to save us. Rather than being number one, we wish to be water. We wish to be a resource that can be shared, renewed, and sent to the ends of the earth to take the information (and more than just information) that we have and help as many people as possible. This is what it means for us to be that mystical Body of Christ. To wish to be water.
For more Kanye-isms, feel free to check out https://twitter.com/kanyewest